Wedding Gowns

The bridesmaid dresses responsibility

The bridesmaids, strictly relating this topic with tradition, represent the bunch of ladies, unmarried ones, ready to fallow the bride’s destiny, which is the desire for marriage. It was considered that the bride will transmit somehow this luck. But that was in the past; nowadays those that are the bridesmaids are the closest friends of the bride.




Being in this posture means to be on the one hand the help and support the bride needs during the whole event and on the other hand being part of the image, part of the bridal appearance. Consequently, the bride needs the bridesmaids to complete her wedding decor and whole outstanding appearance, they gain everyone’s attention but they should obey to the bride. With what? Whit what she imposes on regards of the outfit. I do not say that it is something so extreme, a real sacrifice but the bride is the one to establish how the dresses to look like as to match with the wedding concept. And from here rises the question about the bridesmaid dresses responsibility.

Who is responsible with establishing the design, the cut of the dress, the whole style? The bride. Who is responsible with the payment for them? The bride again or part of this maids of honors must contribute as well?

I believe that there should be a balance. The bride chooses what she wants but counting as well what the bridesmaids want, in order not to force and impose something that they do not like or something that they do not feel comfortable in. And so, both sides contribute to the payment.

But the clearly aim of a bride is to have a thematic wedding, and so, thematic dresses for the bridesmaids. She wants all of them to be dresses all alike and so she imposes what she wants. But from a bridesmaid point of view this means a dress to pay for and with no possibility to wear it some other time; such a waist. In such a case I totally agree that the bride has to pay for everything.

On the other side, stand the brides that are not so desperate about keeping the same eel of a wedding, with thematic dresses for the maids of honors. Probably the single desires are related to the length of the dresses and the color. And so, why should the bride pay for them as after all the bridesmaids have to buy something to wear for the wedding?

As a conclusion, the bridesmaid dresses responsibility is for the both sides and depending on what the bride wants and expects from her maids of honors. More pretensions coming from the bride means to pay entirely the dresses and a flexible decision would allow the bridesmaids to put their personal style at contribution along with their part of the payment. In what category are you?